You People
Netflix | Release Date: January 20, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 33 Critic Reviews
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18
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60
Los Angeles TimesMichael RechtshaffenJan 26, 2023
You People busts out of the gate with the lit, razor-sharp zip of a “Dear White People” only to limp across the finish line with all the edge of Up With People. Read full review
60
EmpireJohn NugentJan 24, 2023
It hardly breaks the romcom mould, but You People is funny and thoughtful on how race can still divide a relationship. As the in-laws from hell, meanwhile, Eddie Murphy and Julia Louis-Dreyfus are the undeniable highlights. Read full review
60
TheWrapRonda Racha PenriceJan 20, 2023
There are certainly any number of inroads to creating a contemporary comedy about interracial relationships, but You People winds up playing as merely outdated and mediocre, with Eddie Murphy and Julia Louis-Dreyfus caught in the cobwebs. Read full review
50
ColliderRoss BonaimeFeb 3, 2023
If anyone could’ve updated this story for 2023, it’s Barris—as he's shown with black-ish. But instead, You People is a missed opportunity, a half-assed reinterpretation that is only sporadically funny, and without the heart or the substance that this story would need for it to truly work. Read full review
50
Rolling StoneCT JonesJan 27, 2023
The film can’t figure out if it wants to be a love story or social commentary, and ends up doing neither very well. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsJan 27, 2023
With a smooth overlay of LA sights and sounds, and a side of blueprints stolen from “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” and “Meet the Fockers,” “You People” ends up a lot less insightfully funny than “Black-ish.” Read full review
50
CNNBrian LowryJan 27, 2023
You People relies on cringe-inducing moments as the crux of its comedy, as a Jewish guy and a Black Muslim woman (neither of them particularly observant) get engaged, then endure the push and pull of their respective families. A topnotch cast – down to the tiny cameos – can’t fully redeem material that gets lost somewhere between satire and sitcom as assembled by star Jonah Hill and director Kenya Barris. Read full review
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TimeStephanie ZacharekJan 20, 2023
You People stretches hard to make its points, but for the most part it’s terminally safe. Read full review
50
VarietyRene RodriguezJan 20, 2023
You People alternates between energetic set-pieces by a nimble roster of comedians and intervals of tedium during which the actors seem lost, unable to jump-start the script’s plentiful thin stretches. Read full review
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Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperJan 20, 2023
Right up until an ending straight out of a mediocre rom-com from the early 2000s, You People never feels like more than a series of stitched-together scenes making some legitimate but obvious points about racial differences. Read full review
45
Film ThreatRob RectorFeb 1, 2023
You People chooses to bounce along from one awkward situation to the next, with little time to let the characters feel like actual people. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubLuke Y. ThompsonJan 26, 2023
For the first half-hour, Netflix has a high-concept hit on its hands. Pause it there, and imagine the rest—you won’t do any worse than Barris and Hill’s script at conceiving an ending. Read full review
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The PlaylistRodrigo PerezJan 23, 2023
Murphy and Hill do lift the film often, the former being wryly sarcastic and meanspirited but cool, the latter finding much comedy in being overly vulnerable, earnest, and painfully sincere. But otherwise, this comedy has no safe spaces for anything resembling authentic human behavior, the kind that anchors comedy to feature truths that make laughs all the more lacerating. Read full review
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The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeJan 30, 2023
The first third of the picture is promising, if frequently excruciating. But the points are painfully laboured and the jokes run out of steam. Read full review
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The GuardianLauren MechlingJan 27, 2023
Mercifully, Murphy adds a dose of sharpness to the project, wrapping his lines in a delivery so sleek and spirited you’d almost think they were funny. And as for the central couple? The one that just wants to get married, culture clash be damned? They’re nice. So nice. Too nice. Read full review
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The TelegraphRobbie CollinJan 26, 2023
In spirit, it’s all very Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. But in execution, it’s far closer to Meet the Parents with a heavy dose of identity politics. Read full review
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The IndependentClarisse LoughreyJan 26, 2023
You People carries the unresolved, disjointed tension of a sitcom that’s been stretched to the two-hour mark. Read full review
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Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzJan 20, 2023
It’s not just that the jokes aren’t funny, or that they’re given to genius comic actors like Eddie Murphy and Julia Louis-Dreyfus to deliver — which has to be some kind of pop-culture crime — the bigger issue is that there's not a single instance of recognizable human behavior in the entire film. Read full review
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